Ashton Kutcher started a Twitter firestorm when he called firing Joe Paterno “in poor taste”. It’s not that tweet that is so agitating though, it’s his terrible attempt at backpedaling that is inexcusable.
Kutcher took this tweet down, which can be found on E!’s site.
He posted the following tweet when he claims he found out why Paterno was let go.
He then tweeted that he would stop tweeting until he found a way to properly manage his feed.
While he should have either stuck to supporting Paterno or not tweeted the original tweet at all, his apology seemed sincere. Though all was not forgiven, he should have left it at that.
That’s when his ludicrous statement came out that made him lose all credibility. Here is an excerpt from his ridiculous statement. Try not to laugh.
“Last night after returning home from work I walked by the television and simply saw a headline that Joe Paterno had been fired. Having no more information than that, I assumed that he had been fired due to poor performance as an aging coach. As a football fan and someone who had watched Joe’s career move from that of legend/innovator to a head coach that fulfilled his duty in the booth, I assumed that the university had let him go due to football related issues. With that assumption (how dare I assume) I posted a tweet defending his career. I then when about my evening, had some dinner, did a little work, and about an hour later turned on ESPN where I got the full story. I quickly when back on my twitter account and found a hailstorm of responses calling me an “idiot” and several other expletives that I’ve become accustom to hearing for almost anything I post. I quickly retracted and deleted my previous post, however that didn’t seem enough to satisfy peoples outrage at my misinformed post. I truly am sorry if I offended anyone and more over am going to take action to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.”
Seriously? Kutcher is trying to play the ignorance card? He’s not fooling anyone. You would have to live under a rock to not know that Penn State was in the midst of the biggest scandal in college football history.
Kutcher wasn’t in the dark when he cranked out that Tweet. There are still people who support Paterno and though his opinion may not be popular, if he was going to tweet it out, he should have stood by it.
Instead, he produced some lame string of excuses and handed over his Twitter account to the folks Katalyst Media. Lame.
Perhaps the most interesting line in the statement is the last one, in which Kutcher says, “It was a mistake that I don’t think will not happen again.”
Freudian slip or is Kutcher playing with double negatives?
We shouldn’t not discount the possibility that Kutcher could hack into his Twitter account and produce a controversial tweet, as he has done in the past.
